Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with venomous status, family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell look-alikes apart.
Palestine Viper
A heavy-bodied viper of the Levant considered the most medically significant venomous snake in its range.
Steppe Viper
A small, grassland-dwelling viper of the Eurasian steppe, closely related to the common European Adder.
Hundred-Pace Viper
A distinctively patterned, medically important pit viper of southern China and Taiwan, popularly named for the exaggerated belief a bite causes death within a hundred paces.
Spiny Bush Viper
A distinctive arboreal viper covered in long, spine-tipped scales that create a shaggy, thorny appearance.
Usambara Bush Viper
A small, horn-scaled arboreal viper endemic to the Eastern Arc mountain forests of Tanzania, known for distinctive raised scales above the eyes.
Eastern Russell's Viper
A medium to large, heavy-bodied viper found across Southeast Asia, closely related to the Indian Russell's Viper and responsible for significant snakebite incidence in its range.
Mount Bulgar Viper
A rare mountain viper restricted to the Bolkar Mountains of southern Turkey, part of the diverse Montivipera radiation.
Armenian Steppe Viper
A small steppe-dwelling viper of the Armenian highlands, closely related to Orsini's Viper and generally of limited medical significance to humans.
Nitsche's Bush Viper
An arboreal African viper of montane forest habitats, named for its variable coloring and keeled scales.
Nose-Horned Viper
A distinctive viper of southern Europe and the Balkans recognized by a small soft horn on its snout, considered the most dangerous viper in Europe.
Sahara Horned Viper
A desert-dwelling viper famous for the small horn-like projections above its eyes, well camouflaged against sand.
Transcaucasian Sand Viper
A desert-dwelling viper of the Caucasus and Iranian plateau, closely related to the false horned vipers.
Green Bush Viper
A small, arboreal African viper with rough spiny scales and a body color that varies from green to yellow or blue-green.
Field's Horned Viper
A small desert viper of the Middle East recognized by hornlike scales above the eyes, adapted for a burrowing, sand-dwelling lifestyle.
Arabian Rock Viper
A montane viper restricted to the high peaks of Lebanon and Syria, adapted to rocky alpine terrain.
Long-Nosed Viper
Europe's most venomous snake, easily recognized by the small, soft nasal horn on the tip of its snout.
Chinese Green Tree Viper
A slender, arboreal green pit viper common across southern China, Taiwan, and northern Vietnam, frequently encountered in forests and cultivated areas.
Blunt-Nosed Viper
A large, robust viper found across the Middle East, Central Asia, and parts of North Africa, regarded as one of the most medically important vipers in its range.
Sahara Sand Viper
A small, sand-colored desert viper often bearing distinctive hornlike scales above each eye, famous for its sideways "sidewinding" locomotion across loose dunes.
Saharan Sand Viper
A classic desert viper of North Africa, often depicted with distinctive horn-like scales above each eye and famed for its sidewinding tracks across dunes.
Persian Horned Viper
A desert viper of the Middle East with prominent hornlike scales above the eyes, occupying rocky and sandy terrain.
Common Mock Viper
A small, viper-mimicking colubrid from Asian forests known for its stout body and viper-like defensive posture.
False Horned Viper
A desert viper of the Middle East that mimics true horned vipers with supraocular scale projections, but belongs to a distinct genus.
Radde's Mountain Viper
A heavy-bodied highland viper of the Caucasus and eastern Anatolia, named after the naturalist Gustav Radde, and closely tied to the same species complex as the Armenian viper.